OT: Comcast Phone & Wireless Network

[lynchjm24]

Every time my Comcast phone rings my wireless network drops the connections to the laptops and you can't reconnect until the call is over. Has anyone got a way to set it up so that I can use the wireless and the phone at the same time. The computer plugged into the modem works while on the phone, just not the wireless.

[flere-imsaho]

Is your phone wireless? Do you know at what frequency it operates?

My recollection is a bit hazy, but a big problem used to be that wireless routers & wireless phones both operated in the same frequency band (900Mhz or 2.4GHz, can't remember).

So, they'd cause interference with each other. This, however, is the most serious example I have seen of that, if indeed this is the case).

If the phone's not wireless, then I have no idea.

[DanGarion]

Your 2.4 GHz phone is interfering with your wireless network. Get phones on another frequency.

[lynchjm24]

Thanks, I never would have thought of that.

[BrianD]

Your 2.4 GHz phone is interfering with your wireless network. Get phones on another frequency.

And as a reminder before it bites someone...microwaves work on the same frequency. My connections don't drop with the microwave on, but it slows to a crawl.

[stevew]

I'd suggest a DECT 6.0 phone, preferrably one made by Panasonic.